Erica Vaughn

As Bethesda Workshops’ Marketing Director, Erica helps share the hope and healing available at Bethesda. Her work includes creating our messages shared through email, social media, and on our website.

She brings experience in marketing several small businesses and non-profit organizations in the Southeast. Erica earned her BS in Business Administration in Marketing from Appalachian State University and completed a certificate program in Digital Marketing with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She and her husband have three kids. She enjoys traveling with her family to the Carolina beaches and mountains.

Shelly Gibbs

Shelly Gibbs is a nonprofit consultant and business coach who partners with organizations and individuals navigating their next season of growth. Her work centers on three pillars: strategy, systems, and staff — the building blocks of sustainable, thriving organizations.

Before launching her practice, Shelly served as Executive Director of NorthState Care Clinic and Director of Moral Revolution, two nonprofits dedicated to equipping and empowering people to live as their best, truest selves.

Shelly brings a whole-person perspective to her work, grounded in the belief that we are tri-polar beings — body, soul, and spirit — and that lasting transformation requires all three. She partners with people in their pursuit of freedom, peace, and abundance, holding firmly to this: we are better together.

She holds a BA in Liberal Studies and a Multi-Subject Teaching Credential from Simpson University. A Northern California native, she's now rooted in the Pacific Northwest.

Melissa Haas

Melissa Haas serves as the spouse-supporting therapist at HopeQuest. Melissa has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy and is a licensed professional counselor. Passionate about spiritual community, healthy marriages, and intimacy with God, Melissa regularly facilitates small groups and teaches and speaks on these topics in order to help the Body of Christ grow relationally with God and each other.

Melissa and her husband Troy have been married for thirty-four years and have three adult children and one grand-daughter. They have devoted their lives to helping others find hope and freedom from addiction, giving back the comfort they have received on their own journeys of healing.

Daniel Kiser

Daniel is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist in the state of Tennessee. He has earned master degrees in Marital and Family Therapy and Biblical Studies from Lee University. Throughout his clinical experience, he has demonstrated clinical effectiveness working with adolescents and families through utilization of evidenced based approaches in his roles as a counselor, clinical supervisor, and behavioral health manager. He has worked with adolescents with severe suicidal behaviors, anxiety, depression, aggression, and high-risk behaviors in residential treatment. Addressed the relational distress within the parent-child relationship created by their child’s disruptive behavioral responses, helping parents through their despair, resentment, and disillusionment. He is invested in the integration of theology and psychology, believing that activation of human longings, desires, and vitality for life is based upon both disciplines. Aside from professional development, he also has experienced the profound impact of a transformative therapeutic relationship that provides accountability, exploration of underlying wounds and thoughts, and compassionate care. Counseling is oriented towards reclaiming, rediscovering, and restoring vital aspects of human development and he is eager to help others in their process as well.

Healing For Partners
Aftercare Group

Aftercare Groups

About the Program

Virtual Weekly Meetings Wednesday 5-6:30pm CST*

For Past Healing for Partners Workshop Participants

We can all use a gentle reminder of who we are and what deep healing feels like. Whether your time at Bethesda was last month or long ago, something sacred happened, you were changed. God met you there, and He is still tenderly pursuing your heart, His beloved.

Whether you have been involved in support groups, or not, my invitation to you is to be brave and join with other Bethesda Alums to renew and recharge your personal recovery. Yes, you are a “partner” or maybe an “ex-partner”, but more importantly you are a valuable treasure who deserves time with other women who get “it” and want to become so much more.

Here are the details. I’d love to have you join us. Please let me know if you have questions.

*We need to have 5 partners interested to start a group. If you are interested and want to be notified when we can open up a group, click the "Interested in joining" button to sign up to be notified.

Amy Croft, Relational Connections Coach & BW Workshop Facilitator

Interested In Joining

Purpose

Cultivate or rekindle meaningful connections with fellow Bethesda women, those who truly understand the journey.
Invite God to guide and reshape the path of your healing and restoration from betrayal.
Renew your commitment to intentional and compassionate self-care.
Reclaim and reinforce healthy, life-giving boundaries.
Create sacred space for the kind of hope and healing you once experienced at Bethesda Workshops

Registration & Payment

By registering for this 10-week support group, you are committing to paying for the full 10 weeks whether you attend all or none of the meetings. This payment is non-refundable. Payment in full required.

Virtual Weekly Meetings are held on Mondays from 11:30am-1pm CST via Zoom, starting 8/4/25. Online meeting link and additional information to be provided upon purchase.

By paying half of the aftercare support group fee now, you will be charged the second half ($325) of the payment 5 weeks from the registration day. This is nonrefundable and you will still be charged the remaining support group fee, 5 weeks from the registration day regardless of your support group attendance/start date.

Registration

Details

10-week commitment
Mondays, 11:30am-1pm CST via Zoom, starting 8/4/25. This is an ongoing program so you can start it any Monday.
$650 per 10 weeks (payable in one payment of half up front and half at 5 weeks)

Book: The Gentle Path Workbook by Patrick Carnes

Facilitator

Amy Croft, Relational Connections Coach & Bethesda Workshop Facilitator

Relational Connections Coach & BW Workshop Facilitator

Amy Croft

Amy received a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Trinity International University after completing a master’s in counseling ministries from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. She is fully trained as a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) through the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP).

Amy highly respects every person who attends Bethesda Workshops because she personally knows what it’s like to do the courageous work of counseling and recovery. An active member of 12 Step communities, Amy believes authentic, honest relationships are essential for deep healing and transformation. She incorporates 12 Step recovery principles, trauma recovery, and faith-based interventions in sessions and groups as appropriate – always mindful of her client’s perspectives and needs.

In her spare time, Amy and her husband Jim enjoy selling antiques at Chicago-land flea markets and have a booth at an antiques mall in Oshkosh, WI. She also loves walking her dog or participating in anything that celebrates her Irish heritage.

Hear From Our Participants

Testimonials

“I resisted any type of community and realized it was a big missing piece of my recovery.”

Healing for Men

“I did not expect the depth of material and tools I received for my recovery and I am thankful.”

Healing for Men

“The integration of Godly values to truly heal core wounds was remarkable.”

Healing for Men

“I resisted any type of community and realized it was a big missing piece of my recovery.”

Healing for Men

“I did not expect the depth of material and tools I received for my recovery and I am thankful.”

Erica Vaughn

Shelly Gibbs

Melissa Haas

Daniel Kiser

Healing For Partners Aftercare Group

About the Program

Purpose

Registration & Payment

Details

Facilitator

Relational Connections Coach & BW Workshop Facilitator

Amy Croft

Hear From Our Participants

Testimonials

Healing for Men

Healing for Men

Healing for Men

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Healing For Partners
Aftercare Group